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Michel Ferracci-Porri | |
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| Born | 24 September 1949 Ajaccio, Corsica, France |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Genre | True crime |
Michel Ferracci-Porri (born 24 September 1949) is a French writer. [1]
Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, commonly known as Madame de Pompadour, was a member of the French court. She was the official chief mistress of King Louis XV from 1745 to 1751, and remained influential as court favourite until her death.
Jacques-Pierre Amette is a French writer. In 2003 his novel Brecht's Mistress won the Prix Goncourt. He has been a correspondent for The New York Times and a journalist for several French newspapers.
Alphonse Allais was a French writer, journalist and humorist. He was also the editor of the Chat Noir, a satirical magazine.
Maurice Pujo was a French journalist and co-founder of the nationalist and monarchist Action Française movement. He became the leader of the Camelots du Roi, the youth organization of the Action Française which took part in many right-wing demonstrations in the years before World War II (1939–45). After World War II he was imprisoned for collaborationist activity.
Brian Michael Stableford was a British academic, critic and science fiction writer who published more than 70 novels and over a hundred volumes of translations. His earlier books were published under the name Brian M. Stableford, but later ones dropped the middle initial and appeared under the name Brian Stableford. He also used the pseudonym Brian Craig for some of his very early and late works. The pseudonym derives from the first names of himself and of a school friend from the 1960s, Craig A. Mackintosh, with whom he jointly published some very early work.
Johnny Abbes García was the chief of the governmental intelligence office – the Servicio de Inteligencia Militar – during the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. He ruled under Trujillo during the end of the Third Republic, and later served the Duvalier dynasty in Haiti.
The Normandie Hotel is a historic building located in the Isleta de San Juan, in San Juan, Puerto Rico which opened on October 10, 1942 as a hotel. Its design was inspired by the French transatlantic passenger ship SS Normandie in addition to featuring the same art deco design as the ocean liner that inspired it, and the hotel's original roof sign was one of the two signs that adorned the top deck of the SS Normandie but were removed from it during an early refitting. It is an example of what came to be known as the Streamline Moderne architecture style.
Félix Benítez Rexach was a Puerto Rican engineer and businessman who built the Normandie Hotel, located in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Martínez, better known as Ramfis Trujillo Martínez, was the son of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic, after whose 1961 assassination he briefly held power. Nominally an army general, he lived the life of a reckless and spoiled playboy like his friend and sometime brother-in-law Porfirio Rubirosa. Remembered for his ruthlessness and cruelty, he went into exile in Spain, where he died of wounds ten days after crashing a sports car.
Joseph Fiévée was a French journalist, novelist, essayist, playwright, civil servant and secret agent. He also lived in an openly gay relationship with the writer Théodore Leclercq (1777-1851), with whom he was buried after his death.
Roger Borniche was a French author and detective of the Sûreté nationale.
The "Courrier de Lyon" case is a famous French criminal case. It occurred during the French Revolution. During the night of 27 and 28 April 1796, a mail coach was ambushed outside Paris by several men who stole a large sum of money. The stage coach was supposed to go to Lyon from Paris, carrying money for the Army of Italy. Both the driver and the armed guard were brutally killed. A third man on board, travelling under an assumed name, participated in the killing and later vanished.
La môme vert-de-gris, released in the USA as Poison Ivy, is a 1953 French crime film.
La Dame de chez Maxim is a three-act farce by Georges Feydeau, first produced in Paris in 1899. It depicts the complications ensuing when a respectable citizen becomes mixed up with a Moulin Rouge dancer after drinking too much champagne at Maxim's restaurant.
Moineau was the former merchantman Spartiate, which the French Navy requisitioned to serve as 16-gun corvette on the Île de France station between 1794 and 1797.
Nicolas Le Floch is a fictional character, the hero of a series of police detective novels written by Jean-François Parot that take place principally in Paris in the 18th century.
Max Bonnafous was a French sociologist who was Minister of Agriculture and Supplies from 1942 to 1944 in the Vichy government.
Pierre Birnbaum is a French historian and sociologist.
René Moineau was one of the French pioneers of aviation and an inventor in various branches of aeronautics and fluid mechanics. A pilot and engineer at Bréguet, he designed his own plane, the Salmson-Moineau SM-1, in 1915, then devoted himself to numerous inventions, several patented, including the Moineau pump still used in industry, and the first retractable landing gear.
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